The Continuing Story of Bungalow Billy Gillispie

Clouds are moving, but it’s still raining. Uncle Ben is no longer a domestic servant, but he’s still working for the Man. And Texas A&M has approved a new contract for basketball coach/drama queen Billy Clyde Gillispie, but there’s still a scintilla of uncertainty, according to an Express-News sportswriter, that he’ll sign on the labored, protracted, dotted line.

The world’s treadmill continues and the Anchor Desk finishes out the week with the full knowledge that, come Monday morning, I’ll be doing it all over again.

And when we see each other again, this story will still be here

Texas A&M’s Board of Regents approved a new contract for Gillespie that will put him among the Big 12′s elite in terms of salary at $1.75 million. In the eight days, A&M lost its first Sweet 16 game in 27 years and had Gillispie drag the hearts of Aggie fans on a wild, emotional goose chase through Fayetteville, Lexington and Atlanta. He was courted by Arkansas, wanted to be considered by Kentucky, and has been in Atlanta while his contract was prepared.

UPDATE: Gillespie, the school said in a prepared statement, has agreed in principle to the deal and will sign it when he returns from Atlanta.

Maybe the Regents should kick in another few thousand bucks and name a drama school after him, for crap’s sake.

The Gillispie melodrama is so much fun, I’ve decided to pepper the rest of this installment with references to it.

Like the 1980s television show Benson, where a butler ended up lieutenant governor in a span of a few seasons, a black man is getting one hell of a promotion. In this case, it’s Uncle Ben, the rice spokesman. For years, he was clearly been some sort of domestic servant. Now, in a stunning makeover, he’s going to be chairman of the company. If he signs the contract, that is. And when will we see Mother Teresa Jemima?

They deliver on campus

A woman showed up unannounced and uninvited at the Pi Kappa Alpha house at the University of Michigan while the members were dining. She stripped naked, sat on the couch, and really didn’t want to get up… because she was masturbating.Then she got up and left, leaving the guys without a clear answer about what was going on. Frat members reluctantly called police. (Found on The Obscure Store and Reading Room )